XI. THE PEACE OF HEAVEN, P 4
4 Nothing in this world can give this peace, for nothing in this world is wholly shared. Perfect perception can merely show you what is capable of being wholly shared. It can also show you the results of sharing, while you still remember the results of not sharing. The Holy Spirit points quietly to the contrast, knowing that you will finally let Him judge the difference for you, allowing Him to demonstrate which must be true. He has perfect faith in your final judgment, because He knows that He will make it for you. To doubt this would be to doubt that His mission will be fulfilled. How is this possible, when His mission is of God?
Journal
I am not going to find perfect peace in time where I seem to exist at the moment. But I can come close if I choose to let the Holy Spirit lead me. If I will bring Him my un-peaceful thoughts He will show me how to see them differently and the contrast will teach me what brings peace and what doesn’t. Jesus is using the word sharing in describing this. What can be shared brings peace, what cannot be shared brings suffering.
I didn’t understand what Jesus meant by this at first. The world sharing seemed to come out of left field. What has sharing got to do with peace? But suddenly I had the thought that this has to do with Oneness. We are one and we cannot experience the peace of God until we accept our unity. This is what sharing is about. All must be shared with all. If it cannot be shared, it is not of God and therefore is not real.
That which cannot be shared must be abandoned and this will be done because this is God’s Will. What is it that I cannot share? I can’t share hate. I can hate the same one that my friend hates, but we cannot share the hate. I hate for my reasons and she hates for hers. I feel hate in my way and she feels it in her way. Hate is a perception and it shifts and changes as perceptions do.
How can we share what we cannot even pin down? We have a strong need to join and so we tend to gather around ideas, but if those ideas are not real, we wind up standing in the same place, but still unable to join in that place. For instance, if I hate Trump and you hate Trump, we can come together in our hate. We can talk about what we hate about him, we can talk about our fears about him, but we cannot share in our hate, we cannot become one in our hate.
Love, on the other hand, is real, and because it is real, it can be shared. We can come together to put our hate on the altar and allow it to be transformed. Then we will share the love that is there. We will be joined in a real way; we will love as one. In love there is no fear. In love there is a sense of what we really are and of our oneness with our Creator, and so there is the deep and abiding peace that Jesus speaks of in this paragraph.
The other point Jesus is making is that this is done through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will lead us to perfect perception. Perfect perception will show us what we are capable of sharing. It will show us the results of sharing while we still remember not sharing and this contrast will show us what must be true. This will lead us to the only choice we would want to make, the choice to allow the Holy Spirit to judge for us. We will not fail in this because the Holy Spirit will not fail in His mission. He will not fail in His mission because it is of God.
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